It sometimes felt this day would never come. Not Theresa May resigning as Prime Minister, but Theresa May showing clear emotion.
People are already asking if this will burnish her image in the history books.
That seems unlikely. History is written without sentiment or partiality, at least it’s meant to be.
So what will May’s legacy look like?
I doubt May 24th 2019 will feature as much more than a curtain closer, and certainly not any as any ‘great reveal’.
April 18th 2017 was arguably the most significant day of her premiership.
Before the same lectern May called a general election, asking the country to give her a landslide victory in the naïve belief it would strengthen her hand in Brussels.
She subsequently lost the majority David Cameron had unexpectedly won in 2015, running one of the worst election campaigns in living memory.
‘Nothing has changed’ anyone?
While the EU couldn’t have cared less about any ‘super’ mandate May turned up with, losing that majority left the door wide open to hard-line Tory Brexiteers to sabotage anything she tried.
Consequent pandering to the Democratic Unionist Party was humiliating.
Forking out £1bn for Northern Ireland in return for DUP support, soon after telling a voter face-to-face that there was no ‘magic money tree’, stuck in many people’s throats.
Jacob Rees-Mogg became the chairman of the ERG committee and electrified its assault on the definition of Brexit.
May and other more moderate MPs offered no light bulb moments in return.
Indeed she did the opposite, entrenching herself within a Brexit deal hated by Remainers and Leavers alike.
If we wish to talk of history then only two things need be said.
May’s government was the first in British history to be found in contempt of Parliament.
This was for not publishing the full legal advice on its Withdrawal Bill.
May’s deal also scored the largest defeat the Commons has ever seen, and then the second largest for good measure.
The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.
If that is true then sanity clearly left Number 10 some time ago, even if a little emotion has entered.
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It sometimes felt this day would never come. Not Theresa May resigning as Prime Minister, but Theresa May showing clear emotion.
People are already asking if this will burnish her image in the history books.
That seems unlikely. History is written without sentiment or partiality, at least it’s meant to be.
So what will May’s legacy look like?
I doubt May 24th 2019 will feature as much more than a curtain closer, and certainly not any as any ‘great reveal’.
April 18th 2017 was arguably the most significant day of her premiership.
Before the same lectern May called a general election, asking the country to give her a landslide victory in the naïve belief it would strengthen her hand in Brussels.
She subsequently lost the majority David Cameron had unexpectedly won in 2015, running one of the worst election campaigns in living memory.
‘Nothing has changed’ anyone?
While the EU couldn’t have cared less about any ‘super’ mandate May turned up with, losing that majority left the door wide open to hard-line Tory Brexiteers to sabotage anything she tried.
Consequent pandering to the Democratic Unionist Party was humiliating.
Forking out £1bn for Northern Ireland in return for DUP support, soon after telling a voter face-to-face that there was no ‘magic money tree’, stuck in many people’s throats.
Jacob Rees-Mogg became the chairman of the ERG committee and electrified its assault on the definition of Brexit.
May and other more moderate MPs offered no light bulb moments in return.
Indeed she did the opposite, entrenching herself within a Brexit deal hated by Remainers and Leavers alike.
If we wish to talk of history then only two things need be said.
May’s government was the first in British history to be found in contempt of Parliament.
This was for not publishing the full legal advice on its Withdrawal Bill.
May’s deal also scored the largest defeat the Commons has ever seen, and then the second largest for good measure.
The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.
If that is true then sanity clearly left Number 10 some time ago, even if a little emotion has entered.
